Child Development Perspectives Paper on Children’s “Social” Relationships with AI
I recently published a study in Child Development Perspectives on the topic of children and conversational technologies. The paper, “Talking with Machines: C...
I recently published a study in Child Development Perspectives on the topic of children and conversational technologies. The paper, “Talking with Machines: C...
We recently published a study in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology on our collaboration with PBS KIDS. The project involved creating “conversat...
I am excited to share that I will be joining @UMichEducation as an Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences & Technology in Fall 2022...
We have two papers accepted to ACL 2022, both focusing on automatic question generation in educational settings:
I’m excited to share that we have another paper accepted to CHI 2022 after R&R, “StoryBuddy: A Human-AI Collaborative Agent for Parent-Child Interactive ...
With funding from Schmidt Futures, I’m pleased to announce that my team has completed the development of a benchmark dataset of dialogic questions for childr...
Our paper, “Elinor’s Talking to Me!”:Integrating Conversational AI into Children’s Narrative Science Programming, has been accepted to CHI 2022.
I am thrilled that our team (UCI and PBS KIDS) was awarded a $3 million NSF AISL grant to continue our research on conversational videos! The project will it...
We held our symposium, “Promoting Social Interaction in Young Children’s Digital Learning,” in the Connected Learning Summit. This symposium reviews three re...
I am excited to have received $40,000 from the Schmidt Futures as the PI to develop a benchmark dataset of dialogic questioning. This dataset represents high...
We demo’d our conversational videos at the Artificial Intelligence in Education conference.
I am delighted to present our paper on designing conversational agents for young language learners at CHI2021. In this paper, we carried out a critical conte...
Together with my colleagues at UCI, we conducted a year-long, multi-case ethnographic study to understand how children select media content from a vast enorm...
I had a nice interview with Rebecca Koenig, a senior reporter at EdSurge, in which we talked about our research on using conversational agents to support ear...